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A traveller was walking down a road when he met a man from the next
town. "Excuse me," he said. "I am hoping to stay in the next town
tonight. Can you tell me what the townspeople are like?"
"Well," said the townsman, "how did you find the people in the last
town you visited?"
"Oh, they were an irascible bunch. Kept to themselves. Took me for a
fool. Over-charged me for what I got. Gave me very poor service."
"Well, then," said the townsman, "you'll find them pretty much the
same here."
6. Gender barriers
There are distinct differences between the speech patterns in a man
and those in a woman. A woman speaks between 22,000 and 25,000
words a day whereas a man speaks between 7,000 and 10,000. In
childhood, girls speak earlier than boys and at the age of three, have a
vocabulary twice that of boys.
The reason for this lies in the wiring of a man's and woman's brains.
When a man talks, his speech is located in the left side of the brain but
in no specific area. When a woman talks, the speech is located in both
hemispheres and in two specific locations.
This means that a man talks in a linear, logical and compartmentalised
way, features of left-brain thinking; whereas a woman talks more
freely mixing logic and emotion, features of both sides of the brain. It
also explains why women talk for much longer than men each day.